MotorMouth

Monday, July 30, 2012

The Thing Is

It's our final show before Autumn so we're having a party! Have a drink on us, watch the performance from Sullivan & Flint and help us welcome Summer Residency artist Owen Clarke.

We
are delighted to welcome back our 2011 artists in residence Christine
Sullivan and Rob Flint! Marking the begininng of a new tradition of
former residents opening the next summer residency, Sullivan and Flint
will be performing their new work The Thing Is.

Following recent work using the human voice as a
descriptive and transformative tool, Christine Sullivan and Rob Flint present
another action/event where live description is a substitute for the visual
spectacle of the artwork.

In a world where screens increasingly divide our
experience between physical presence and mediated absence, this is an
experiment with their attention, and with yours.

Sitting in a synthetically cocooned
gallery space watching two different versions of the classic horror movie ‘The
Thing’ on video glasses, the artists will describe their experience as it takes place. Watching the films for the
first time, each describes their specific movie in parallel at opposite ends
of the space, while the audience move freely between them, assembling a
second-hand narrative from re-told stories separated by three decades.

In a further excessive reiteration, their actions will
be broadcast by Nottingham-based art collective ‘Tether’,
whose current 'Tethervision' project at Nottingham space Primary is a critical
collaborative exploration of the relationship between an event and it's documentation.